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  • Carcharodon hastalis


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    Taxonomy

    Carcharodon hastalis

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
    Class: Chondrichthyes
    Order: Lamniformes
    Family: Lamnidae
    Genus: Carcharodon
    Species: Carcharodon hastalis

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Cenozoic
    Period: Neogene
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Miocene

    Stratigraphy

    Calvert Formation

    Provenance

    Collector: Jason Rice
    Date Collected: 05/03/2017
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Location

    Calvert Cliffs
    Maryland
    United States

    Comments

    There's a debate as to whether or not Great Whites evolved from Makos. There's also enough scientific evidence to suggest they do.

     

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    This tooth can therefore be classified as either Isurus hastalis or Carcharodon hastalis.

     

    See:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isurus_hastalis

     




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